Vampire Chronicles 1: Interview with the vampire

Both were moral decisions. Both served a higher good, in the mind of the artist. The conflict lies between the morals of the artist and the morals of society, not between aesthetics and morality. But often this isn’t understood; and here comes the waste, the tragedy.

Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

I am not so much in love with happiness.

Loneliness to the point of madness.

‘It’s a string which is pulling me through the labyrinth. I am not pulling the string. The string is pulling me….’

Locked together in hatred

Evil is a point of view,’

You wander through the night, feeding on rats like a pauper and then moon at Babette’s window, filled with care, yet helpless as the goddess who came by night to watch Endymion sleep and could not have him.

And in your romance with mortal life, you’re dead to your vampire nature!’

host of saints whose names filled my prayer books, none of whom made the slightest difference in a narrow, materialistic, and selfish existence. I saw my real gods…the gods of most men. Food, drink, and security in conformity.

" `Dying!' I shouted. `Dying!'

" Ìt happens to everyone,'

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. But you must understand, possession is really another way of saying someone is mad.

a capital joke.

‘I don’t know whether I come from the devil or not! I don’t know what I am!

to take her life, to become one with her in an embrace of death when my soul would become one with my heart and nourished with it.

a stroke of genius.

she was to give a ball for a cause.

They would use your life as if it were merely oil for a proper lamp

Lestat danced like the maddened Rumpelstiltskin about to put his foot through the floor.

Being a vampire for him meant revenge. Revenge against life itself.